What is the road map after Microstation 2023?

I believe they are switching to year based versioning like autodesk has, so next year would be Microstation 2024. While it doesn't mean much for MicroStation for the verticals standardizing will be welcome. Currently we have:

• OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Update 12

• OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition 2022 Release 3

• 10.12.01.59

and those are all the same product (and despite the 2022 date, was released in 2023). Getting rid of 4 words in one name and 5 in the other will be huge reduction in confusion. And having the first number of the numerical version match the year is great too.

Information on versioning can be found on the Bentley Lifecycle Policy  

Hopefully they also simplify that - a simple OpenRoads Designer 2023 and then 2023.1, 2023.2 is all we need. Hopefully Microstation does that type of minor version branding as well.

We get a lot of confused users every update...

Yeah, that's my hope too. So much simpler.

clever_anthony said:

When the version naming of Microstation changed from CONNECT to 2023, what does it means to the future?

I think it does not mean anything, just naming:

• DGN V8 format remains the same.
• GUI remains the same.
• PowerPlatform technology, at least what I see without SDK, is nearly the same (the same MSVC runtime, minor NET update from Framework 4.6.2 to 4.8)
• QuickVision engine nearly the same (only minor update from 5.12.16 to 5.12.18, still based on DirectX 11)

First personal impressions is it look a bit faster, so probably some internal optimizations and enhancements implemented.

Mark Shamoun said:

Hopefully they also simplify that - a simple OpenRoads Designer 2023 and then 2023.1, 2023.2 is all we need.

I agree. The naming of civil products is confusing marketing chaos on drugs, nothing else. Impossible for normal user to understand what products are the same (minor updates based on the same civil schemas) and what product upgrade requires standards and DGN updates.

Regards,

  Jan